Comments on: It’s our duty — all of us — to fight for the open webhttp://gigaom.com/2012/12/14/its-our-duty-all-of-us-to-fight-for-the-open-web/
The industry leader in emerging technology researchTue, 13 Feb 2018 18:19:48 +0000hourly1By: Annuhhttp://gigaom.com/2012/12/14/its-our-duty-all-of-us-to-fight-for-the-open-web/#comment-1259886
Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:37:48 +0000http://gigaom.com/?p=594727#comment-1259886These sort of articles always are written from the point of view from someone who ‘understands’ the internet and/or technology. The people who make use of sites like Facebook are people like my wife, my nieces etc who do not want and never will want to take the time to setup their own page or website using software that takes time to learn to setup or maintain. For them Facebook is just what they need.

I do not think the website is suddenly not open anymore. Everyone can still use it otherwise, but the majority of users simply want ease of use. And if Facebook, Twitter or whatever can provide that for them, so be it.

And on a personal note: Personally I do not care if Facebook, Google or Apple uses my data. I have nothing to hide. I give them access to it and if I do not want it … I just won’t make use of it. I still have the ability to make that choice don’t I?

]]>By: Stuart Floridahttp://gigaom.com/2012/12/14/its-our-duty-all-of-us-to-fight-for-the-open-web/#comment-1259817
Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:03:32 +0000http://gigaom.com/?p=594727#comment-1259817communism, Marxism, capitalism were all developed with the idea of a planet with infinite resources, since that’s not the case, we have to destroy the economy.
]]>By: Chris Reedhttp://gigaom.com/2012/12/14/its-our-duty-all-of-us-to-fight-for-the-open-web/#comment-1258911
Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:40:10 +0000http://gigaom.com/?p=594727#comment-1258911lol, you don’t even know whats up?! If the international community stops you from accessing content from other countries ( or the opposite ). How will you having a domain keep the internet open?
]]>By: kayarkayhttp://gigaom.com/2012/12/14/its-our-duty-all-of-us-to-fight-for-the-open-web/#comment-1258590
Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:30:15 +0000http://gigaom.com/?p=594727#comment-1258590Some of the “walled gardens” may crumble in due course, a sign of which I read recently about a Swedish start-up Publit which provides a platform for publishers and authors to sell directly to readers which should undermine the Kindle & iBooks walled gardens.

It is rather disappointing to see such â€œdisintermediatingâ€ innovations emerging from outside the U.S., perhaps attesting to the head in the sand denial on the part of US publishers and the stranglehold Amazon has over the industry.

And i was rather crazy for the publishers to have resorted to collusion for price-fixing and inviting the wrath of DoJ when the more effective approach would have to foster Publit-like platforms. Why bother with agency model, wholesale model etc. when all that is needed is a platform to host the content, manage DRM, process payment and advertise/promote etc. and receive realtime market intelligence as gravy.

Besides Publit-like platforms, the publishers and authors could establish their own collaborative eBook portal and simply pay commissions to sales coming from affiliate’s referral links from specialist book review sites similar to movie review sites Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes. And if only the industry promotes the development of generic, commodity e-reader devices using an open format like ePub and figure out a way to subsidize or pretty much give it away, it will liberate themselves and the readers from the walled gardens of Kindle and iBooks and shift the paradigm to â€œContent is Kingâ€ rather that the yoke of â€œPlatform is Kingâ€ they squirm under.

As it ought to have been to begin with, hope the day will come soon when eBook distribution is done on a â€œMarketplaceâ€ model sponsored by neutral, non-competing platforms like Ebay, Facebook, Publit etc.

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Sat, 15 Dec 2012 20:38:02 +0000http://gigaom.com/?p=594727#comment-1258385I like the article but it doesn’t go far enough, does it? It’s easy enough to jump down the author’s throat but I feel you’ll understand that a course of action has to be offered.
]]>By: Hamranhansenhansenhttp://gigaom.com/2012/12/14/its-our-duty-all-of-us-to-fight-for-the-open-web/#comment-1257543
Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:48:36 +0000http://gigaom.com/?p=594727#comment-1257543You don’t have to â€œfightâ€ for the open Web â€” the problem is that the technology is crap.

Like Windows, the Web has fallen into disrepair technologically because the principals involved thought they had a monopoly. The Web installs an app with a single click! Therefore all other app platforms will fail and only the Web will be left. Except then Apple created a consumer-focused version of the Mac app platform that installs with a single-click, yet still has the richness of native Cocoa app development.

In Cocoa, audio video is not exotic, and it is easy to implement. Same with typography, animation, input methods. In HTML5, it is still all a mess. HTML5 did not go far enough. It needed to be designed for consumers, not coders. Too late now.

Me, I started making websites in 1994 and wrote books about Web development starting in 1998. But today, I make iOS apps because it takes half as much work to make a twice as good app. The final straw for me was the disrespect shown to ISO MPEG audio video standardization (20 years of dramatic success) by people who were supposedly making â€œstandardizedâ€ W3C HTML5 code. Fail. If you are building to standards. Every PC and mobile had a hardware MPEG video player in it, which Firefox and Opera block the Web app from using. Well, you reap what you sow. I make iOS apps now with ISO standard C code and ISO standard audio video and I’m happier, my users are happier.

â€œOpenâ€ does not excuse crap technology. You have to win on technology.

]]>By: yt75http://gigaom.com/2012/12/14/its-our-duty-all-of-us-to-fight-for-the-open-web/#comment-1257160
Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:09:52 +0000http://gigaom.com/?p=594727#comment-1257160What is killing the web is the dogma of “everything should be free, ad based, crappy”, not much more
]]>By: yt75http://gigaom.com/2012/12/14/its-our-duty-all-of-us-to-fight-for-the-open-web/#comment-1257021
Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:03:54 +0000http://gigaom.com/?p=594727#comment-1257021This “open” word is so tired and over used.
What is required is a new role, primarily :http://iiscn.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/concepts-economie-numerique-draft/
That is “private bookshelf holders”(only references, not copies), doing just that, ability to move from one to the other with ones list of “licences”, and legal privacy guaranties
]]>By: Jesterhttp://gigaom.com/2012/12/14/its-our-duty-all-of-us-to-fight-for-the-open-web/#comment-1256206
Sat, 15 Dec 2012 04:44:30 +0000http://gigaom.com/?p=594727#comment-1256206Everyone’s impressed I’m sure.
]]>By: James Barneshttp://gigaom.com/2012/12/14/its-our-duty-all-of-us-to-fight-for-the-open-web/#comment-1256043
Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:04:38 +0000http://gigaom.com/?p=594727#comment-1256043If you care about the the web remaining open the best course of action is to buy a domain name and some hosting space and set up your own website. It’s not that difficult to do this and you can still use all those social networks and social tools.
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